Cartridge-carrier.



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-(No Model.)

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. UNITED STATES ,PATENT OFFICE.

EDVARD TINKI-IAM GIBSON, OF FORT HARRISON, MONTANA.

CARTRIDGE-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 693,004, dated February 11, 1902.

Application filed April 8,1901. Serial No. 54,899. (No model.)

worn upon some part of the person; and the object of my improvement is to provide iiaps for covering the mouths of the receptacles for cartridges, which iiaps when not in use may be placed and maintained in a position wherein they cannot act as obstacles to the rapid extraction of the contents of the receptacles.

I accomplish the object of my improvement by hinging the permanently-attached extremity of each iiap to the back side of the car- Jfridge-carrier, so that the flap when straightened may be turned sidewise on its hinge in the direction of its plane to lie between the back of the cartridge-carrier and the body of the person wearing it, as will be hereinafter fully explained.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front perspective view 0f an empty cartridge-carrier having receptacles for loose cartridges and provided with my improved flaps. The grouping-band and a portion of the cylindrical tubes which are grouped together by the said grouping-band are broken away to expose the head of the rivet on the shank of which the iap turns. Fig. 2 is a rear perspective view of the cartridge-carrier shown in Fig. l.

Arepresentsthe body-piece of the cartridgecarrier, and upon its front side are fashioned receptacles for loose cartridges formed of an inner and an outer row of cylindrical tubes C, grouped together by grouping-bands O. The iiap E is permanently attached by one extremity e2 to the back side of the bodypieceA bya rivet F, situated in the said bodypiece between two ofthe said cylindrical tubes in the inner row, as is shownin Fig. l, and the shank of which rivet passes through a hole punched in the Vsaid extremity e2 and admits of the flap E being turned on the said shank sidewise in the direction of its plane from the position indicated in the iigures by dotted outline of the flap, and in which position the direction of the length of the ilap is ata right angle with the direction of the length of the mouth edge of the body-piece A of the cartridge-carrier, to the position indicated in the figures by full outline ofthe Hap, and in which latter position the direction of the length of the flap is in the direction of the length of the mouth edge of the said body-piece A, and the said flap being situated between the back side of the said body-piece A and the body of the person who may happen to Wear the cartridgecarrier. The free extremity e ofthe said flap E is provided with a buttonhole e', by means of which the said free extremity of the flap may be detachably attached to a button D, situated on the grouping-band C.

The grouping-band C', as will be seen by an inspection of the gures, is distinct from the cylindrical tubes C.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A cartridge-carrier comprising a bodypiece having upon its front side receptacles for cartridges formed of cylindrical tubes, a flap permanently secured by one extremity to the back side of the said body-piece by a single rivet the shank of which passes through a hole in the said fiap, the said Iiap admitting of being revolved sidewise on the said shank to lie behind the said body-piece when not in use, a fastening device in the free extremity of the said iiap,and,to detachably engage with the said fastening device,a companion fastening device on a strip which is distinct from the said cylindrical tubes.

2. A cartridge-carrier comprising a bodypiece having upon its front side an inner and an outer row of cylindrical tubes, a flap permanently secured by Ione extremity to the back side of the said body-piece by a singleC rivet situated in the said body-piece between two of the said cylindrical tubes in the inner row and the shank of which rivet passes device, aeompanion fastening device on the through a hole in the said ap, the said flap front of the cartridge-carrier. admitting of being revolved sidewise on the said shank of the rivet; to lie behind the said EDWARD TINKHAM GIBSON' 5 body-piece when not in use, a, fasbeningde- Vitnesses:

Vice in the free extremity of the said iap, and, BENJAMIN F. NUDD,

to detachably engage-with the said fastening VALENTINE OSWEILER. 

